I use the control around the shutter button on both FZ1000's as the zoom ring is very unresponsive! The slider sounds a lot better and hopefully when it's pushed the camera zooms ..on the FZ1000 if you rotate the ring a quarter turn it doesn't do anything! Yeah the 2500 zoom is awesome ..mine is already at it's new home on the East Coast ...Have you sold yours yet?

Not yet. Haven't gotten it back. I didn't feel comfortable selling without knowing for sure I didn't get a bad copy so sent it in. If they tell me it's operating in spec I'll sell it. Real shame as the video features of this camera is as close as I've seen to operating a real video camera.

Yeah you are right .. I also have an MDH2 Shoulder Mount Camera which is our PAL version of your AC8PJ camera ...they are a bit boxy and plastic but when I yearn for a real video camera with a rocker zoom it fills my needs and costs around the same as a FZ2500 .... Sadly only FHD and no 4K and AVCHD only but it works fine and I use it for beach weddings when I'm streaming as it has a "proper" sized HDMI port that isn't easily damaged (both my FZ1000's have micro ports that are faulty as the sockets are damaged)

Sorry for the confusion Rob, I should have been more specific. The video was shot with the FZ300, all stills (except the last one which was shot with the FZ300) was taken with a ZS100. Personal preference but I prefer lower contrast lower detail for video than stills. This video was sharpness -5 and contrast -2. The ZS100 was set at sharpness +1 contrast +2.

Morning Chris. The ZS100 is a small compact camera. 20 meg on 1" sensor. Baby, pocket FZ1000. I carry a compact everywhere with me. The LX7 is still my favorite but the ZS100 takes better video so use it a lot also. It doesn't have built in ND like the LX7 so you need an adapter to use filters.